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Embarrassing, but valuable nevertheless

First Published on January 18, 2012 - 2,079 Views

Citrix screwed up recently with VDI-in-a-Box, creating a worldwide outage for every user of the product on January 1st. The proximate cause was a simple one,  the Virtual Desktop Agent used by VDI-in-a-Box had a .dll which expired at midnight December 31st 2011 and the software wasn’t patched to address this. Like I said – embarrassing.

Now although it was a VDI product that had this problem wasn’t a VDI problem, it could have hit almost any product.  I’ve seen this same type of failure take out many tens of thousands of PCs in one go and I’m sure it will happen again; people make mistakes.

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2011 review – Citrix

First Published on December 15, 2011 - 2,617 Views

Citrix had a busy year with notable acquisitions in the form of Kaviza, cloud.com and most recently App-DNA. Setting aside cloud.com as not being immediately relevant to desktop virtualization; in acquiring Kaviza and App-DNA, Citrix is directly addressing the two most important concerns that potential adopters of desktop virtualization have expressed – complexity and vendor maturity.

Joe Onisick highlighted this concern in a comment on my post on Cisco’s ability to create an inflection point in VDI adoption by saying

All the companies and tools you mention are great for VDI deployments, but is an infrastructure that requires 5-6+ vendors just to deliver a desktop really the house of cards you want to run your business on?

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Defining the post-PC Era

First Published on October 26, 2011 - 2,047 Views

In listening to some people you would be forgiven for thinking that corporations are dumping last year’s PCs in the trash in their rush to make room for a future built of smartphones, tablets, and flying cars. It’s a wonderful notion and one clearly resonates with many IT pundits who’ve anointed this dream with the grandiose name “The post-PC Era”.

The justification for this perspective is easy to see.

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Forget all you have been told – Cisco will fulfill the promise of VDI

First Published on October 20, 2011 - 23,887 Views

Last week I posed a simple question on Twitter

#VDI too costly? What would it take to make you reconsider? Double the number of sessions per server? Triple maybe?

Only to be reminded just how strongly sentiment had swung against VDI in favor of the other desktop virtualization alternatives. Going back to the first half of 2009, VDI sparked off an almost unprecedented wave of enthusiasm amongst desktop engineers worn down by the constant battle to retain control of the desktop looking for the magic bullet that could finally put to rest the nightmare of distributed desktop management.

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Citrix Announce Acquisition of Cloud.com

First Published on July 12, 2011 - 1,283 Views

Well this is interesting…

Not content to take a back seat to VMware, Citrix has reached for its check book and bought out Cloud.com and in a potentially risky move has somehow managed to coincide its announcement with VMware’s big cloud infrastructure launch announcement that is scheduled for 9 am PT today.

Originally known as VMOps, Cloud.com was founded by Sheng Liang, Shannon Williams, Alex Huang, Will Chan, and Chiradeep Vittal in 2008, formally launching as Cloud.com in May 2010.

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Citrix VDI-in-a-Box

First Published on June 6, 2011 - 8,287 Views

Even before Citrix Synergy started last Wednesday, Citrix had already made one major announcement, with the news that Citrix has acquired Kaviza and along with it Kaviza’s SMB desktop virtualization solution VDI-in-a-Box. The early announcement during the Citrix Summit channel partner conference being a nod to Citrix’s view that this news was of greatest importance to its channel partners.

With the acquisition news still fresh, and after sharing the stage with Mike Peercy, Kaviza’s Co-Founder & CTO, at Synergy on Wednesday morning it seemed only right to start my Synergy solutions review with what is now Citrix VDI-in-a-Box.

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